The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-07
THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.
A Short Days Work-Another @Physician
Imaeines He Has Been Affronted.

A Short Days work-Another physician
Imagines He Has Been Affronted.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-President Davis
called the International Medical Congress to or
der at IL o'clock this morning, and introduced
DR.. Austin Flint, LII. D., of New York. who pro-
ceede6 to read his paper Fever, it's Cause.
Mechanism and Rational Treatment" Adjourned
until tomorrow
Another case of friction, growing cut of mis-
understanding of the facts, has occurred. One
of the Irish physicians, Dr. Murphy, of Dublin,
has written a letter Withdrawing from
the congress because he felt affronted at
not being invited to the banquet
of medical editors last night A letter has been
sent to the Doctor stating that the ba nquet was
not given under the auspices of the congress-
but of some of the individual delegates to it.
and that consequently the congre SIS had no
voice in the matter. He is asked. under the
circumstances, to reconsider his action.
The morning discussions at most of the sections
were very simly attended, had attend
ance at all. an most of the doctors were at the
general session at Albaughs At some of the
sections. no one but the secretary chairman
present.
Not more than fifty persons. as a rule, at
tended any of the section meetings in the
afternoon at the same time. Richard H. Oar,
of Baton Rouge, La, read very interesting
paper on the effects of overfows the general
health before the section on public
and international hygiene. The con-
clusions arrived at that over
flows, general thing. injurious
to health, and that the extent of the injury was
dependent the duration of the lnnndaton
and its season; that it's evil effects lessened
by good drainage and copious showers of rain
occurring during the subsdence of the waters.
In the section relating to diseases of chill
dren. an interesting paper was read by William
Stephenson of Aberdeen, Scotland. on THE
of
dren, and it's Bearing the Investigation of
Of ceas MIX in ,hs Feeding oef of
Infants, Prof. w. G. Vaughan. of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Anatomical
Character of Membraneous Group as Observed
in Fatal Cases in the New York Founding
Asylum" w. P. Northrup, New York city; Re
marks on Tuoage of the Cloths and the Manner
in which it was Practiced in France" f.
Bouchut of Paris; "Intubation of Larynx. with
Demonstration on the Living Subject" Drs.
Joseph Dwiyer and Dillon Brown, New York
city, syphilis and Ricketts, in Brazil" DIR. Mon
corvo. Rio do Janeiro; 'Intubation versus
TrachRotomy in the Treatment of Group, Prof.
T. E. Waxham, of Chicago
The consideration of the subject Of abdominal
surgery was continued IN the section OF general
surgery. j. NJ. Matthews. of Louisville, KY,
gave his opinion of when laparotomy is justif-
able. Donald MacLain, of Detroit, Mich, read
clinical notes in regard two successful and
haustive discussion was then participated in by
Drs. Murphy, of Chicago, Peck, of Iowa, and
others.
In the section on medical climatology and
demography, Prof Denison, of Denver. Col;
j. M. Moore of Dublin, and Fl. B. Baker of
Michigan. read papers on the influence OF eli
mate upon the humnn pulmonary apparatus. A
paper sunstroke, read by John Anderson
brigade surgeon in the British army, provoked a
lengthy discussion in the meeting of the section
on military surgery.